GSN Games has launched a limited-edition social slot title in support of the Best Friends Animal Society (BFAS). Throughout November, GSN Games is encouraging players to play Pet Pals Slots in the Games by GSN Facebook app. GSN has pledged to turn game play into a donation of up to $30 000 to the BFAS. …
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) and Hasbro Inc. have partnered to launch two new MONOPOLY-branded games for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android devices and Kindle Fire tablets. These titles combine the popular world of MONOPOLY with the casual, interactive fun of bingo in MONOPOLY Bingo and casino-style slots in MONOPOLY Slots. “We’ve taken two of the …
MGT Capital Investments has acquired New York City-based social gaming development studio Avcom. Avcom’s focus is on building social casino games for mobile devices under the brand Mobile Vegas. The development team includes the likes of an unnamed former IGT lead artist who was reportedly integral in the development of land-based favourites American Idol, Sex …
Online gambling software developer BetSoft Gaming has announced a new partnership with Codere, the multinational gaming group based in Spain. Under the terms of the partnership, BetSoft will provide games content to Codere, including its entire Slots3 collection. The deal marks the first time that BetSoft’s online slots games are represented in the land-based market. …
Australian readers may recall the name Lawrence Escalante, the young Perth entrepreneur who raised capital online to launch his Facebook social gaming company Virtual Gaming World and its Chumba Casino subsidiary. Escalante used a typically social gaming business model to generate revenues, allowing his online players to buy extra chips for premium action rather than …
With the soft launch of New Jersey online gambling just days away, the Associated Press news agency reports that geolocation technology necessary to ensure that gamblers are within state borders may have to shut some literally borderline cases out. Geolocation providers told the news agency that they have had to set their digital fences slightly …
Speaking at a conference in Macau this week, high profile Las Vegas internet gaming lawyer Anthony Cabot encouraged China and Macau lawmakers to embrace online gambling, describing it as a popular and growing industry. Reporting on his address, The Macau Daily Times said Cabot backed up his assertions with facts, quoting studies from Britain that …
Sheldon Adelson, the eighty-year-old owner of the Las Vegas Sands land gambling group and the Republican Party’s biggest single donor, is not yet done with internet gambling, and is planning a further attack on the industry to halt its growth in the United States, according to a report in the Washington Post over the weekend. …
Further details have been released on Friday’s news that four Dutch men with online gambling connections have been arrested in the Netherlands and charged with laundering around Euro 110 million. It has now been confirmed that the arrests are associated with the major raids conducted by Dutch police earlier this year, in which the CEO …
New Jersey politicians and operators will be disappointed by the news Friday from the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, which has turned down the Garden State’s request for a full panel of judges to re-hear its appeal on the PASPA issue. That means that Governor Chris Christie may have to ante up …
Online gambling group 888 has embarked on another innovative marketing exercise, joining the Spanish Nitro television channel in the production of a new show dubbed 888casino. Publicity material claims that the show allows Spanish viewers to become players in a real casino setting, airing in the wee small hours of the morning on the channel. …
The current crackdown on internet gambling by the Korean police has claimed another casualty, with K-pop Shinwa band member Andy Lee named alongside other South Korean celebrities accused of gambling online. The publication Korea Star Daily reports that Lee has cancelled all professional engagements and has left the group’s weekly television program “Shinhwa Broadcast.” “I …
The telephone betting and customer services departments at William Hill plc in Gibraltar are about to be downsized as punters turn increasingly to internet and mobile channels in placing their bets, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle. In addition, the company expects to outsource its customer services, resulting in job cuts. Apparently 65 jobs are in danger, …
Online and land gambling group Ladbrokes plc was forced to deny that it is about to issue another profits warning after an investor relations call to Ireland’s Goodbody Stockbrokers triggered rumours of an impending alert, according to a report in The Telegraph newspaper Friday. A Goodbody employee apparently warned clients in an email headed: “Ladbrokes …
The already contentious issue of who gets the miserly 20 online sports betting licenses from the German authorities appears to be going from bad to worse, with the latest reports indicating that those operators waiting impatiently to be given the nod may have even longer to hang about. The issue has been dragging on ever …
Remember Rep. Jim McDermott and his Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act several years ago designed to complement one of Rep. Barney Frank’s many attempts to achieve federal legalisation of online gambling? Frank has retired, but McDermott is still in Congress slugging away with an updated and renamed bill – Internet Gambling Regulation and …
Just as sanity appeared to have returned to the American online gambling industry with state-by-state legalisation in Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey, complications have arisen from the financial transactions perspective, reports the Bloombergs business news agency. In an article titled “Web Gaming Curbed as PayPal to Bank of America Refuse Bets”, the agency reports that …
The National Prosecution Office in Holland announced Thursday the arrest of four men by Dutch police on charges of large-scale money laundering of profits allegedly derived from illegal online gambling operations. The arrested men come from different towns in the Netherlands, although the scope of the police action indicates cross-border activity, with prosecutors claiming to …
Chinese lottery statistics released this week by the Ministry of Finance again illustrate the staggering potential of the Chinese gambling market, reporting sales that reached 251.64 billion yuan (41.29 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 10 months of 2013, up 19.2 percent year on year. The news agency Xinhua reports that during this period, welfare …
The international online gambling industry will watch with interest the reaction of the European Commission to Poland’s draft gambling law amendments, which were submitted to the Commission this week for comment following several months of consideration and drafting . The controversial proposals put forward by the Polish government amend the 2009 gambling legislation to fully …
In the New Jersey legislature a bill designed to make Atlantic City an online gambling hub has successfully passed out of the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism and Historic Preservation Committee. The measure makes provision for online gambling hardware such as servers to be set up outside the confines of licensed New Jersey land casinos, …
Advocate General Sharpston of the European Court of Justice has published an opinion critical of Austrian law consistency in the Pfleger case, reconfirming existing case law that national gambling legislation should be consistent and proportionate, and that it is up to the Member State to provide the necessary evidence to this effect. The Pfleger case …
James Duddridge, MP for Rochford and Southend East in the UK, incurred the wrath of anti-gambling action group Campaign for Fairer Gambling this week when he suggested in parliament that land casinos be permitted to offer online gambling services in terms of the new reforms to British gambling laws. The reaction from the anti-gambling lobby …
It appears that the operator criticism of Bulgaria’s punitive online gambling tax regime may have hit home with parliamentarians in the Eastern European nation; the Sofia Globe reports that a bill seeking to amend the country’s gambling law has been introduced to parliament and is sponsored by 11 MPs. The lawmakers want to ensure that …